Dear Friend and Reader,
The Friday edition of Planet Waves Astrology News is now available to subscribers. In it, Eric writes about Atlantis, connecting the lost mythical city and the downfall of its civilization to our current technological advances, particularly the Large Hadron Collider, and how it could be viewed as an example of technology running rampant. Here is a short excerpt from Eric’s article:
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CERN’s Large Hadron Collider is set to become the very first time machine in history.
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“There seem to be two sides to the Atlantis issue. One is spiritual, regarding our relationship to God or the cosmos. The other is technological, regarding our relationship to Big Science and ordinary technology. The two issues are, at times, closely bonded; for us they both address the question of existence or threatened existence or more often, the threat of nonexistence. Either God will create the Rapture, or one of our Big Science machines will run out of control. If we worship technology and turn it into God, we’ll surely have problems. Or we may intentionally use technology as a means of either discovering God (the Large Hadron Collider) or thinking we are God (the nuclear bomb, which Americans and only Americans have used on civilians).
“When you take these themes and wrap them in the issue of whether any of this is going to be our downfall, that is the essence of Atlantis. It has an asteroid, number 1198, so the way you would write that is (1198) Atlantis. My keywords for this point are the use and abuse of technology, but this can be on any scale you like, and the results of that use are included. (1198) Atlantis also hints at our anxiety around the fall of our own civilization.”
Judith Gayle also contributes. Her piece, “Light and Shadow,” covers the increased conservatism in an already conservative Republican party, particularly showcasing the background and blunders of Sarah Palin. She writes:
For all the talk of Hillary Clinton’s glass ceiling, Sarah Palin is anti-feminist. She is not your friend; she’s Phyllis Schlafly’s friend. If elected, she will do nothing to make your life easier and will work hard make it much more difficult. She’s the mythical pioneer woman, rifle in one hand and Bible in the other: baby at the breast, and not only shooting dinner but cooking it herself.
She is the poster child for being on your own and loving it with no day care, no childhood health care or early education, no job security or public transportation. You may have come a long way, baby: but if Sarah can do it without any help from “big government,” then working mother, so can you! Grab a bootstrap.
Mrs. Palin’s spunkiness is just what McCain needed to keep the nation awake and his base ecstatic. Those who don’t know her are eager to find out all the details of her “normal family” and “small town life” and they only have a few weeks to do it before installing her as the most reactionary VP in recent memory.
Evidently, the more you know Sarah, the more you like her but probably don’t share her values. Even her most personal friends, who say they love her to bits, aren’t sure they’re going to vote for her. Her mother-in-law, whom Sarah refused to support in her bid for mayor, says she doesn’t know what her daughter-in-law brings to the ticket.
And it appears that as interesting as the Governor is, there are many Alaskan’s whom she both frightens and worries.
There is also the weekly horoscope, written by Eric. A sample of this week’s horoscope can be seen on the cover, and every day we post an Oracle at midnight, which randomly selects from thousands of Eric’s previously written horoscopes. Scroll down to the yellow post below this one for more details.
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We’ll be back later with a note from Eric about this weekend’s Pisces Full Moon.
